wishlist - Google Apps Discussion Group

Things we would like Google to add/create in Google Apps:

Existing Apps integrating:�

Picasa Web Albums (Centralized and for all users)

Google Video (If Picasa wouldn't integrate. Centralized and for all users) �
Blogger (Centralized and for all users)
Groups (Shared across organization)
Maps (Centralized and for all users)
Notebook (Centralized and for all users)�
Reader (Centralized and for all users)
Analytics & Sitemaps (Centralized)
Google webmaster tools (Sitemaps etc. Centralized)
GrandCentral (VoIP)
Code (Project hosting / development)
Jaiku (Send SMS-messages to all users)
CSE (Google Custom Search Engine. Centralized and user collaboration)
GoogleTalk (Video Conferencing feature / webcam / allow admin to create the ChatBack badge)
Google Checkout (with user spending limits and store restrictions)�

Improvements:

Administration:� Partial rights to administer. E.g. only webpages for webmaster but not all accounts for the domain.� Particularly, restricting access to deleting the entire Google Apps association for the domain.
�Administrator Data: Create a record of sign on date, tax id (if not for profit), domain name (once verified) and status of all unverified data (which automatically convert to verified) or upgraded (if account upgrade is in process (basic to premier, basic to educator/not for profit). Also keep original verification codes on file in the event user has to re-enter data with their domain management company. Odds are great that during a sign-up a computer may freeze, or a powerfailure occurs and data is lost.
Login: User accounts as OpenID service http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/12/openid-commenting.html�
Contacts/Address book: Shared centralized contacts. Wireless synchronization with Blackberry device. Wireless and wired synchronization with pocket pc platform too.
Gdrive? One file server uploading anything for all Apps.
Folders: Shared centralized, permissioned to the user/group level to the file level (Read/Edit/Delete) Folders should be a part of all Google Apps. Gmail would benefit incredibly with the bonding of folders and it's labeling feature. Shared documents in folders would direct medical personnel, legal personnel , administration to appropriate locations for intake forms, sales packages etc.
PDF Support: Allow PDF files to be uploaded, stored and previewed (as presentation or document)�with other Google Docs. To many existing documents in pdf format, failure to support pdfs properly will definately be a preventive handicap for a user to�migrate�his office to google docs. In short if you can't provide pdf, don't bother with google docs.
Calendar:�
- Bugs:
  - Public iCal feeds not working.�
    - Settings: "Share all information on this calendar with everyone" and "Share all information, and outsiders can change calendars"
    - But example www.google.com/calendar/ical/calendar%40yourdomain.com/public/basic.ics doesn't exist if you're not logged in to a Google Account or the Apps domain. Result: Other people/clients can't get info. The same XML-feeds and HTML is working.
  - Can't delete/moderate comments
  - Guest list not working outside domain.�
  - Importing iCal feeds has lots of bugs.
  - Cannot change event length in GUI to 30 minutes on first try.
- Options for public visitors to download iCal and XML-feeds from HTML-calendar.
- Centralized, single signon
- Shared group calendar where all members of a domain can fill in events without changing their own calendar
- Group invitation in Calendar (Invitation to email list does not invite single participants. Invitation to list team@domain should expand to user1@, user2@)
- Offline access (using Google Gears?)
- Managing Resource calendar by authorized person, for example the the resource manager accepts/ rejects all the requests for using a resource like a room.
Migration:
- From Gmail to Google Apps without 3rd party service (incl. Label-Migration).
- Upload pst files�
- Migrating Exchange Server contacts to Gmail�
Support:� A "preflight" checklist would be great. In fact, I'll make one and post it here. If you make one, please do an A-B check with regard to Google's existing help files. Terms like control panel are not consistent and when one is in the control panel there is no label to indicate such. The note that one can not control the Layout should now be added to help files and not just included in the Wikki. Help files should be amended to reflect that there is no layout tab for new users.
Domains:�
- Enable domain transfer to google.�
- Enable secure access to Google Apps when using custom (sub-)domain
  - currently https://mail.mydomain.com is redirected to an insecure page
  - note that https://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com retains the secure session�
- Enable custom domain name usage to remain in browser URL��
  - http://start.mydomain.com gets redirected to http://partnerpages.google.com/mydomain.com�
  - this completely destroys the sense of unified site access

Fees: Mixed commercial and free accounts on one domain. (Paying for me and�my work, free for my children.)�

Google Sites:�� (can't get the next lines to indent properly - sorry!!)

�� * Better integration with page creator (eventual merge? or is this to replace page creator?)

�� * Initially please add templates that are in the same style as page creator so a uniform look can be made with both?

�� * Ability to change the background of the main content section (currently only header and sidebar can be changed)

Page creator:(Replaced by Jotspot 2008?)�
- Better options, rename files, contact forms, support CSS/javascript etc.�
- Enable HTML-uploaded page as startpage.�

Start page:�
- Enable centralized update of "Custom sections" under "Add stuff /Homepage content directory". Now it has the same look as when the user logged in first time.
- Allow fixed content on start page - users cannot change layout
- Allow sign-on so page is secure to registered users only
- Enable maybe under "Content directory", shared calendars in the domain.
- Enable Google Calendar gadget on start page / homepage, to show added calendars, not only your own events.
- Allow animated gifs for branded logo (including on the control page and email page)
- Password protection of start page. (restrict public access)

Email:
- (G)PGP security integration�
- Specify which domains each user has an email address on
- Email Lists updates:
  - Set Reply-to address for email lists (important)
  - Add moderation features
    - At least restrict posting to list members!�
  - Forward e-mail list to another e-maillist. E.g. list address info@ forwards to list addresses marketing@ and secretary@. (umbrella lists or nested lists)
  - Enable nicknames and email lists on 'parked/additional' domains. Even enabling the ability to set this up manually would be fine.
  - Email list usable for everyone in the domain. (now the EMail list is almost useless as it can only be used by the admin)
- Centralized email whitelist / blacklist For admins to create email whitelist / blacklist in the control panel, no need for each user to create spam filters.
- Search within attachments
- Enable removal of extra information on sign-on page - just logo and sign in box.
- Undo upon sending email (15-30 seconds window) (Recall messages)
- Provide configuration packages for email and calendar clients and a download button. Should be a single action required to fully configure an email client.
- Sending mails with alias address rather then "on behalf of", i.e. better support for emails across multiple domain names
- HTML signatures
- Global signatures
- Offline access (Google Gears?)
- Be able to set the default reply text location to below the quoted text. ie: be able to turn off 'top posting'.� See thunderbird's "reply_on_top" settings.
- Provide pop-up dialog box with all labels - to allow selection of multiple labels at one time. Would also be nice to have labels sorted in categories as used in GTDinbox.
- Add option for right-to-left buttons for Arabic/Hebrew/Urdu/Farsi etc. users who wish to use the English language interface.
Managed directory services.
- Add additional metadata to user account template.
- Allow users to authenticate to Google Apps for access to desktop computers and network resource.� We've already got LDAP, right?

User Services Menu (top left):
- Convert to a pull-down menu
- Ensure the "More" link sends user to a page of services that are actually supported in Google Apps, rather than the general list of Google services. (It is frustrating to arrive at that page, clink on most of those services, and discover that your login doesn't work, because an Apps account is not a Google account.)
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�Discussions / Comments:

�Suggest features to Google:
- �Suggest features to Google:
  - Documents
  - Gmail�
Picasa Web Album:�
- Picasa 2.7 Beta is out for linux. Also this would be a cool feature for letting businesses manage "digital assets."�
Google Video:�
- �(If Picasa wouldn't integrate.) This would be a cool way for organizations to manage their video assets.�
Chat:
- The Chat option should have a place where we can create the new ChatBack Badge for our users so that the admin don't have to signin using the user account and without requesting the user to get the badge code so that it will be the admin property only.
Maps:
- Why does Google Maps need to be integrated into Apps?� I'm really not sure what this would do.�
Jotspot:� Done
- Rumored it should in 2008 integrate as Google Sites. No officially announcement.� The impoverished option that is GPC is turning into a barrier for us.
Analytics & Sitemaps:�
- Integrating Google Analytics & Sitemaps into Apps would make it much easier to provision access different employees.� It's not easy for a business to manage Analytics accounts using personal Google Accounts.
GrandCentral: �
- Hopefully becomes part of gmail :) Internet Telephony (VoIP) with SIP-standard.
Domains:�
- Offer DNS hosting for Apps clients. Make it free and a lot of the other small/unstable/flaky DNS services would fall away.�
- Enable domain transfer to google.
Email:�
- Single Login Page for multi domains (like username1@domain1.com , username1@domain2.com)�
- Reply-to address for email lists:
- It is odd to have 25GB of space for email.� And much less for document storage.� And hardly any for web hosting.��
- (G)PGP: The only problem is, that Google can still see everything you typed into the browser before you encrypted it or after you decrypted it, so if you really rely on secure messaging this is definitely the wrong approach.
- Removal of 500 recipient sending limit.
- Sending mails with alias address rather then "on behalf of"
  - It not a Google Apps problem, more a standard spam problem. Depends on the client if it will show.�
  - I disagree with your spam-client explanation. Google could create a real e-mail account for an alias, which just goes into the same "container" account. This way you would send the e-mail with a real address and not "on behalf of".
Contacts:
- Palm desktop is a perfect solution.
  - What has Palm with Google to do?�
  - contacts and calendar synchronization for any PDA/handheld is critical. It provides travellers and doctors , others, the ability to walk with their data........it's not that the word Palm is used, it is the idea that we can move our contacts, appointments and todo lists onto handhelds with a team. If you are seeing a patient, and not at a computer, you can still enter data into a document or a calendar and then when back at one's pc, synch the data into Google Apps. Pretty much a virtual world. Colleague in Spain can see what happened at a medical conference in LA.�
Google Account:
- Remove the need for creating two separate (but exact) identities.� Be able to link (most frequently) used Google account with Google Apps account, so when you visit google services(Notebook, YouTube) with your Google Apps account, it should link/sign you into those services too(somehow)� and allow you to share/edit data stored there(favourites, notebooks etc.)
  - OpenID service could be the solution.
  A field in each user account for department or group. I.E. for education editions a field to designate students, instructors, and staff accounts. These can be used to 1. Create Mailing List 2. Eventually change the user experience for differing groups if need be.
Other:�
- Can Google please just buy Remember the Milk?� It's already fully integrated into Google Calendar, iGoogle, and most recently the Gmail integration is amazing.
- If Google does decide to buy Remember the Milk or some other task list management service, I wish that they would look at the way that Todoist handles links to Gmail. When you add a task based on an email, the link shows up right in the task, you don't have to click around to find it to read the email related to your task.��
- Want to support users in China as soon as possible, and now I have to consider the Live.com, because there is no choice.

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